POPE Benedict thanked consecrated women virgins gathering at the Vatican today for their "total gift" to Christ, praising a holy rite that he recognised was difficult for some non-Catholics to understand
RUSSIAN space scientists have announced a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a "space cockroach" who spent 12 days in orbit
WHITE House hopeful Barack Obama has accused President George W Bush of tainting US foreign policy with the "politics of fear" after the US leader implied in Israel that Democrats would appease terrorists
AT least 100 people were killed and scores injured when fuel from a pipeline ruptured by a bulldozer caught fire and exploded today in a village near Nigeria`s biggest city of Lagos, the Red Cross said
AN Austrian man who confessed to hacking his wife, daughter, parents and father-in-law to death with an axe felt exhausted but "relieved" after his killing spree, police say
TORRENTIAL tropical downpours lashed Burma`s Irrawaddy delta today, deepening the misery of an estimated 2.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis and further hampering aid efforts
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